US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Aug. 26 for "Routing of an autonomous vehicle in a flood condition" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,034, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Routing of an autonomous vehicle in a flood condition" was invented by Swarnakshi Kapil (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for routing an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a flood condition. An example method can include collecting sensor data from one or more AVs, wherein the sensor data includes measurements associated with a level of precipitation in one or more locations; receiving map data descriptive of an elevation of ground at the one or more locations; determining that the level of precipitation in the...